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Written Answers to Questions
Tuesday 15 February 2000
PRIME MINISTER
Public Bodies (Fees)
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Prime Minister which fees his Department, its agencies and associated public bodies collect; how much has been raised and will be raised from each of these fees from 1989-90 to 2004-05; and which of these fees count as negative expenditure. [107974]
The Prime Minister: For the purposes of this question, this answer includes my Office and the Cabinet Office, together with its agencies and associated public bodies. A fee is a charge made under legislative authority. My Office, the Cabinet Office, its agencies and associated public bodies collect no fees.
Privy Council (Judicial Committee)
Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answers of 7 February 2000, Official Report, columns 3-4W, (1) which judges have served on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, who were nominated on the advice of a head of Government of another Commonwealth country in the past twenty years; [109383]
- (2) if he will list the people from other countries of the Commonwealth who have been accorded membership of the Privy Council in the past 20 years; which of these were eligible for membership of the Judicial Committee; and which served on the Judicial Committee subsequently. [109384]
The Prime Minister [holding answer 10 February 2000]: I understand that of those persons appointed to the Privy Council in the last 20 years the following have actually served on the Judicial Committee by virtue of holding or having held judicial office in a superior court outside the United Kingdom:
| Privy Councillor | |
|---|---|
| Sir Gordon Bisson | New Zealand Court of Appeal |
| Sir Maurice Casey | New Zealand Court of Appeal |
| Sir Thomas Eichelbaum | New Zealand Court of Appeal |
| Sir Thomas Floissac | East Caribbean Supreme Court |
| Thomas Gault | New Zealand Court of Appeal |
| Telford Georges | Bahamas Court of Appeal |
| Sir Michael Hardie Boys | New Zealand Court of Appeal |
| John Henry | New Zealand Court of Appeal |
| Sir Duncan McMullin | New Zealand Court of Appeal |
| Edward Zacca | Supreme Court of Jamaica |
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| Privy Councillor | |
|---|---|
| Duncan MacIntyre | New Zealand |
| Lancelot Raymond Adams-Schneider | New Zealand |
| Sir Duncan McMullin(1) | New Zealand |
| Edward Phillip George Seaga | Jamaica |
| Sir Julius Chan | Papua New Guinea |
| Allan Louisy | Saint Lucia |
| Robert Milton Cato | St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
| David Spence Thomson | New Zealand |
| Sir Edward Somers(1) | New Zealand |
| Sir Zelman Cowen | Australia |
| George Cadle Price | Belize |
| Tomasi Puapua | Tuvalu |
| Vere Cornwall Bird | Antigua and Barbuda |
| John George Meluin Compton | St. Lucia |
| David Lange | New Zealand |
| Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds | St. Kitts and Nevis |
| Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer | New Zealand |
| Robert James Tizard | New Zealand |
| Fraser MacDonald Colman | New Zealand |
| James Fitz-Allen Mitchell | St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Manuel Esquivel | Belize |
| Sir Maurice Casey(1) | New Zealand |
| Telford Georges(1) | Bahamas |
| Herbert Augustus Blaize | Grenada |
| Anerood Jugnauth | Mauritius |
| Paias Wingti | Papua New Guinea |
| Francis Duncan O'Flynn | New Zealand |
| Sir Gordon Bisson(1) | New Zealand |
| Ezekiel Alebua | Solomon Islands |
| Jonathan Lucas Hunt | New Zealand |
| Sir Michael Hardie Boys(1) | New Zealand |
| Sir Thomas Eichelbaum | New Zealand |
| Lainagan Namaliu | Papua New Guinea |
| Michael Norman Manley | Jamaica |
| Lloyd Erskine Sandiford | Barbados |
| Helen Elizabeth Clark | New Zealand |
| Michael Kenneth Moore | New Zealand |
| Bikenibeu Paeniu | Tuvalu |
| Sir Nicholas Alexandar Braithwaite | Grenada |
| James Brendan Bolger | New Zealand |
| Donald Charles McKinnon | New Zealand |
| William Francis Birch | New Zealand |
| Thomas Munro Gault(1) | New Zealand |
| Ian Lloyd McKay(1) | New Zealand |
| John Steele Henry(1) | New Zealand |
| Edmund Walter Thomas(1) | New Zealand |
| Percival Noel James Patterson | Jamaica |
| Edward Zacca(1) | Jamaica |
| Sir Vincent Floissac(1) | St. Lucia |
| Hubert Ingraham | Bahamas |
| Owen Seymour Arthur | Barbados |
| Kamuta Latasi | Tuvalu |
| Jennifer Mary Shipley | New Zealand |
| Winston Raymond Peters | New Zealand |
| Douglas Arthur Montrose Graham | New Zealand |
| Paul Clayton East | New Zealand |
| Sir Kenneth James Keith(1) | New Zealand |
| Peter Blanchard(1) | New Zealand |
| Andrew Patrick Charles Tipping(1) | New Zealand |
| Wyatt Beetham Creech | New Zealand |
| Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias(1) | New Zealand |
| Simon Upton | New Zealand |
(1) Judges who are or were eligible for membership of the Judicial Committee
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Austria (Bilateral Meetings)
Mr. Jim Murphy: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list the previously planned meetings, and their subject, between him and the Prime Minister of Austria which have been cancelled since the formation of the new Austrian Government. [109868]
The Prime Minister: I had no previously planned meeting with the Chancellor of Austria before the measures of the 14 member states were implemented.
Iraq
Mr. Dalyell: To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his letter of 8 February to the hon. Member for Linlithgow, if he will set out the conditions which Iraq must fulfil to have made real progress on disarmament. [109601]
The Prime Minister [holding answer 14 February 2000]: Security Council Resolution 1284 sets out the conditions which Iraq must fulfil. The Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC and the Director General of the IAEA will identify the key remaining disarmament tasks to be completed by Iraq. The resolution states that what is required of Iraq for the implementation of each task should be clearly defined and precise.
Central and Regional Government
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Prime Minister when the Performance and Innovation Unit's report on the role of central Government at regional and local level will be published. [110419]
The Prime Minister: The Performance and Innovation Unit's report "Reaching out: the role of central Government at regional and local level" is being published tomorrow.
Copies will be available from the Vote Office.
Review Body on Senior Salaries
Mr. Gapes: To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the report and recommendations of the Review Body on Senior Salaries. [110420]
The Prime Minister: The 2000 report of the Review Body on Senior Salaries, which makes recommendations about the pay of the senior civil service, senior military personnel and the judiciary, together with the annual uprating of Parliamentary salaries, is being published today. Copies are available from the Vote Office. I am grateful to the Chairman and members of the Review Body for their work.
The main recommendations of the Review Body are:
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Pay increases for Members of Parliament and Ministers are linked automatically to the increase in pay bands for the senior civil service. Their pay entitlement will therefore increase from 1 April 2000 by 2.9 per cent.
Mr. Evans:
To ask the Prime Minister what plans he has to bring forward proposals for reform of the House of Lords; and on what timescale. [110336]
The Prime Minister:
The Government have made it clear that they wish to give proper consideration to the recommendations of the Royal Commission. That process is still continuing.
an increase from 1 April 2000 of 2.9 per cent. in the minimum and maximum values of each of the pay bands for the senior civil service. Within the bands, departments and agencies will determine individual awards on the basis of performance. A further 0.4 per cent. of the total senior civil service paybill should be made available to fund additional performance awards for the most senior staff, whose pay has fallen well behind comparable remuneration elsewhere. Promotion to and within the senior civil service should be recognised by a move to a higher pay band and an increase of not less than 10 per cent.;
an increase from 1 April 2000 of 3.3 per cent. in judicial salaries, with additional increases for seven senior members of the judiciary as a result of changes in the salary structure at those levels in recognition of their increasing responsibility for judicial leadership and the supervision of the judicial system;
The Government have decided to accept these recommendations. Their cost will be met within existing Departmental Expenditure Limits.
an increase from 1 April 2000 of 3.3 per cent. in the maxima of the pay ranges within which individual salaries are set for senior military personnel.
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